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And the Alices go to … these 7 writers who get the curious, unreal side of...
Since founding The Displaced Nation on April Fool’s Day (no fooling?), Kate Allison, Anthony Windram and I have been coming across travel writers who understand just how befuddling the life of the...
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RANDOM NOMAD: Annabel Kantaria, British Expat in Dubai
Place of birth: London, UK Passport: UK Overseas travel history: United Arab Emirates (Dubai): 1998 – present. Occupation: Former journalist and one of four official expat bloggers for The Weekly...
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CLEOPATRA FOR A DAY: Fashion & beauty diary of Third Culture Kid Tiffany...
Let’s all line up and curtsy to the 16-year-old German-American Tiffany Lake-Haeuser, who has just disembarked on the shores of The Displaced Nation. Born in New York City to German parents, this Third...
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Oblivious to controversy, this expat author stirs up tales of violence,...
Alexander McNabb isn’t afraid of ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties, and things that go bump in the night — which, as Kate Allison announced the week before last, is this month’s theme at the...
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Catching up with this year’s Random Nomads over the holidays (1/3)
The holiday season is here — the perfect time for the Displaced Nation to catch up with the expats and other global voyagers who washed up on our shores in 2012. Remember all those Random Nomads who...
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For a Third Culture Kid, birthday candles are easier to come by than the...
Born to German parents in the United States who later moved the family to the UAE, Tiffany Lake-Haeuser learned very quickly that unlike birthday candles, Christmas candles only happen if you’re living...
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And the June 2013 Alices go to… these 5 international creatives
As subscribers to our weekly newsletter know, each week our Displaced Dispatch presents an “Alice Award” to a writer who we think has a special handle on the curious and unreal aspects of the displaced...
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An expat novel in episodes: SUITE DUBAI #1 – Arriving (1/8)
Today we begin a serial novel by Callista Fox, called Suite Dubai. Recalling her childhood as a Third Culture Kid in the Middle East, Callista had a story in her head that wouldn’t go away: “There was...
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An expat novel in episodes: SUITE DUBAI #1 – Arriving (2/8)
It’s mid-December—perfect timing for the second installment of Suite Dubai, a serial novel by adult Third Culture Kid Callista Fox. As Callista tells it, the book grew out of a story that entered her...
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EMERALD CITY TO “KANSAS”: Amy Rogerson on seeing the Wizard of Expat Life and...
Welcome to “Emerald City to ‘Kansas,’” a series in which we focus on expatriate-into-repatriate stories. This month our subject is Amy Rogerson, an Englishwoman who blogs at The Tide That Left about...
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CULTURE SHOCK TOOLBOX: How to be a diva in another culture–by not being one!
Columnist H.E. Rybol never saw a culture clash she didn’t want to fix. She calls herself a “transitions enthusiast” and credits her Third Culture Kid upbringing for giving her a head start in that...
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Top 10 diverting holiday posts for expats and world travelers
‘Twas the night before the night before Christmas, when all through the house, creatures were stirring…because they had jet lag! This is how I imagine many of you expats and world travelers may be...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Best of expat fiction 2015
The title of this post is a lie: you didn’t miss anything. It’s we who missed our deadline of publishing, at the end of 2015, a list of books for, by and about expats. Dare I suggest that our...
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REVERSE CULTURE SHOCK TOOLBOX: To cope with the transition back to your...
Transitions enthusiast H.E. Rybol consults with recent repat Morgan Carver Richards about the best tools for fixing a bad case of reverse culture shock syndrome. Hello, Displaced Nationers! I wonder if...
View ArticleFAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD: Cristina Baldan’s creative life as serial expat
Columnist Doreen Brett is back. Having introduced herself to us in her opening column, she will use this second post to interview serial expat Cristina Baldan, about the impact of her various “homes”...
View ArticleFAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD: Jo Parfitt’s creative life as serial expat
Columnist Doreen Brett is back, and she’s accompanied by another “great” in the expat publishing world, Jo Parfitt, who has published 30+ books herself while also helping at least a hundred new expat...
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